1629 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles I

Events

• 15 October – the Osborne Baronetcy, of Ballentaylor in the County of Tipperary, and Ballylemon in the county of Wexford, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland in favour of Richard Osborne.
• 26 December – the Archbishop of Dublin, Lancelot Bulkeley, the Mayor and a body of musketeers invade and suppress a clandestine friary in Cook Street, Dublin, during Solemn Mass.
• A community of Colettine Poor Clares moves to Dublin.

Births

• 1 November – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, last Catholic martyr to die in England, canonised
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, historian
• Sir Henry Piers, baronet, soldier and antiquarian

Deaths

• 4 March – Ambrose Ussher, Protestant scholar
• 18 June – Tiobóid na Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo, clan chief
• 18 November – Fláithrí Ó Maol Chonaire, Franciscan theologian
• Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, politician